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Country Risk IHS Jane’s Intelligence Review 30 December 2014 Employees at the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), at Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, on 11 January 2013. EC3 is at the forefront of global policing efforts to tackle criminality on the darknet. Source: PA Key Points Darknet markets have multiplied since the first major…

Date December 8, 2014 Chris Zappone News editor, foreign desk So hacked are Taiwan’s computers that some government employees are issued with two – one connected to the internet, and a second that remains offline for security reasons. Taiwan bombarded by cyber attacks Many cyber bugs and tactics are being exercised and verified in Taiwan…

By Kevin Kwang POSTED: 17 Oct 2014 20:48 UPDATED: 17 Oct 2014 Professor Isaac Ben-Israel, Chairman of the Israel Space Agency and Israel National Council for Research and Development, says it may be years yet before rules governing cyber warfare to make it more “human” can be thrashed out on an international level. PHOTOS Professor…

Video game fans try out the new Xbox game console at Xbox One Official Launch Celebration at Milk Studios, on Thursday, November, 21, 2013. // Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP By Nextgov Staff October 1, 2014 Hackers who were after gaming secrets wiggled their way into an Army network in the process, the AP reports. Federal officials have…

EXCLUSIVE: By: Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief 07/04/2014 (11:59am) This week, the hacktivist collective known as Anonymous announced in a video on YouTube that it will soon launch “Operation NO2ISIS,” an attack on official websites of countries the group considers to be financially supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). According to the Middle East…

Published time: June 02, 2014 20:17 Edited time: June 03, 2014 05:58 Get short URL AFP Photo / Hoang Dimh Nam The UK has warned its computer-users they have two weeks to protect their machines from two powerful viruses, GameOver Zeus and Cryptolocker, after a US-led multinational operation announced a coordinated takedown of malware.…

Hackers set up a fake news organization called NewsOnAir.org, and tried to make the site look legitimate by copying and posting news articles and swapping out real writer names with fake ones. Screen shot via iSight Partners By NICOLE PERLROTH May 29, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO — An elaborate, three-year cyberespionage campaign against United States military contractors, members…

John Torrisi Thursday, 15 May 2014 | 12:34 PM ET CNBC.com A small-scale city in New Jersey has suffered from repeated electrical grid failures, train derailments, and water purification problems. However, the problems aren’t keeping visitors away. In fact, they’re the reason the micro-city exists in the first place. CyberCity is a miniature city, measuring…